Systems and methods for notification forwarding may include forwarding all or selected notifications generated by one or more applications running on a wireless mobile device to a television receiving device that is connected to the television. This forwarding may occur over the short-range wireless network or on a home wireless local area network on which the television receiving device is also present. The receiving device may cause the forwarded notifications to be displayed on the television while the television is also displaying other programming received from various other sources. The particular location on the presentation device to display the forwarded notification and the size, color and appearance of the notification may be selected by the user via a graphical user interface of the wireless mobile device and/or the television receiving device.
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2. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless mobile device notification is a push notification generated by an application running on the wireless mobile device.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein the generating the wireless mobile device notification for a user of the wireless mobile device for display on a display of the wireless mobile device includes generating the wireless mobile device notification for a user of the wireless mobile device without displaying the wireless mobile device notification on the display of the wireless mobile device.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the wireless mobile device is a cellular telephone.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the forwarding the selected group of the plurality of push notifications to the television receiving device is further based on a determination that the first receiving device is a receiving device selected to receive push notifications according to user permission settings on the wireless mobile device.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the television receiving device is a cable or satellite television set-top box.
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